It is believed that hostilities among the inlanders of Malaita forced some people into the lagoon where over time they built their islands on sandbars after diving for coral.

The religion of the island was based on prayers and offerings to the ghosts of dead ancestors, mediated by priests who kept their skulls and relics in tabu houses.

And the main reason why they came is to fish and in search for other sea foods in the island of Launasi meaning I'm stuck now known as Laulasi.

[1] In 1893 then Gibson of HMS Curacoa (1854) sailed around the islands to declare a protectorate with the only opposition by the Laulasi villages who refused the British flag.

The burning of the vessel was somehow prevented by the black crew, but this was so unprecedented that the owner feared some complicity between them and the attacking party.

The present skipper smilingly warned us that the same tribe still required two more heads from the Minota, to square up for deaths on the Ysabel plantation (p 387).

The reason was due to an error namely that the Americans mistook Laulasi for the Japanese camp at Afufu in North Malaita.

Which resulted in the killing 24 children, destroying the shell money industry and the incident still remains the subject of an unresolved compensation claim".

[8] The British resident commissioner wrote in his diary: "7 US planes bombed Laulasi village – 18 killed – most inexplicable as no enemy repeorted there"(Marchant 7 Aug 1942)[9] "The bombing of Laulasi island was the worst loss of civilian lives in the entire Solomon Islands conflict".

Around that age, they are taught by the fathers basic important skills such as fishing, building houses, making canoes or cutting and sewing sago palm leaves".

"Girls on the other hand, they stay with their mother and taught household chores such as cooking, weeding around the house, cleaning and looking after their younger brothers of sisters.

Many of the communities previously sited on the artificial islands had been shifted to the mainland, with encouragement from the missionaries anxious to promote a clean break with the pagan past, and inducement in the form of greater access to land for subsistence farming.

[12] In 1980, Moses Beogo who was the last Pagan priest (Fata'abu) on Laulasi and the last to perform the shark calling tradition, died.

[13] In 1981 a symposium in the then U.S.S.R heard of Solomon Islands that: "One of the more successful ventures in the tourist industry is Laulasi Adventure Tours Ltd"[14] In 1982 a research paper by the Australian National University claimed: "Laulasi has become one of the notable tourist attractions of the South Pacific – with all the predictable consequences for the integrity of the ancestral religion and the fabric of community social life.

[12] In 1997 an author stated: "Laulasi village, at the centre of the lagoon, makes a business of being nice to visitors.

[15] In 2006 The Last Heathen by Charles Montgomery concludes that for this he was expecting to find a volatile mixture of the tribal, pagan religion and Christianity.

Once this tour concluded, the delegation was presented with a display of song and dance and formalities and a demonstration of the minting process of the shell money.

[citation needed] The Annual Report on the British Solomon Islands dated 1953 states "..a flourishing boat building industry has been established and cutters are being built for the inter-island trade.

Mr. Frank Faulker who used to teach at the school and who now settled in Auki, is said to be the main person behind the success of the industry in Langalanga.

Stories retold from myths said that the first person to introduce shell money to the Langalanga lagoon was a woman from Buin in Bougainville.

She was banish and floated in a coconut shell from Buin to Guadalcanal and finally to Malaita and landed at Tafilo a village at Lalana near Laulasi.